More and more large projects have requirements for self-policing team quality management systems and also to make provisions for internal and external evaluation of project team function and communication.

The PDF at right describes a project that is an interchange rebuild with approximately 20 steel bridges and is valued over $1.2 billion. The specification includes monetary penalties attached to the performance of the team’s quality system requirements. The specification also has requirements for the SMS-Safety Management Systems and EMS-Environmental Management Systems elsewhere in the contract specification.